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TIL Atticus Shaffer, who played Brick in The Middle, has brittle bone disease (osteogenesis imperfecta). It makes his bones fragile, but he used it to shape his unique character and still built a strong acting career.

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8LxP TIL The etymology of the worlds most recognizable word, “okay / OK”, comes from a fad in the 1830s where people purposely misspelt “all correct” as “oll korrect”.
8eGJK TIL on August 8th, 2023 a historical society installed a plaque commemorating Dave Matthew’s Band tour bus dumping 800 pounds of human sewage on a tour boat beneath a Chicago bridge.
64KQ TIL That the X-rays from an atomic bomb are so powerful, they can compress lithium until it causes a fusion explosion… even without the shockwave. Its called a “Teller-Ulam” nuclear weapon, and it uses an atomic bomb as a “spark plug”.
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